The career of an academic is filled with peaks and troughs. We have periods where we're rolling in grant funds, and then many years of no funding. We have high impact papers accepted with minor revisions, and then a string of rejections. And we have parts of the year where we are completely swamped with teaching and research, and then times between semesters where we have relative luxurious freedom to pursue our research interests...
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.geo-down-under.org.au/100-days-of-geoscience/